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after listeing to 3 hours of Stuart Maconie's ace Freakzone with a special on Post punk 6Music have given a show to professional 'dining out one thing he did 30years ago' Don Letts, and is doing a 'riposte' by playing the 'roots' of punk - this is all very good but getting the names of bands wrong (and this is a man who was apparently so much 'part of the scene' which I don't doubt he was) AND a pioneer of London's nascent punk DJing its all really rather sad to hear - like seeing your granddad shit himself really

and made an epochal punk documentary - but really, he's the Joe Johnson of punk isn't he?

I just hate the way that we have to 'celebrate' 30 years of punk like it was the best thing that happened - taking away some very intelligent writing on a time that we can only imagine you're basically left with a lot of half committed clash fans who now run one branch of the industry recylcling a time when girls probably got drunk enough to snog them or something.

Post punk in reality sums up that period of time far more succinctly- of course we could argue that without 'punk' there would be 'no post-punk', but really that's like celebrating the sperm that created more than your actual self. So to summarise, punk is just erm....spunk?